The cumulative number of new crown cases in India exceeds 9 million, the cumulative number of deaths in Mexico exceeds 100,000

　　Global epidemic briefing: The cumulative number of new crown cases in India exceeds 9 million and the cumulative number of deaths in Mexico exceeds 100,000

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 21.　

Global data

　　World Health Organization: As of 15:59 on the 20th Central European Time (22:59 Beijing Time), the number of confirmed cases worldwide increased by 620,744 compared with the previous day, reaching 5,623,643; death cases increased by 10,516, reaching 1,355,963.

　　Johns Hopkins University in the United States: As of 7:25 on the 21st, Beijing time, 57,427,358 confirmed cases of new crown worldwide, and 1,369,767 deaths.

The United States is the most severely affected country in the world, with 11,893,096 confirmed cases and 254,271 deaths.

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　　The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines on the 19th, calling on Americans not to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday to reduce the risk of infection and spread of the new crown.

Thanksgiving Day is a traditional American holiday, and this year's Thanksgiving Day is November 26.

The new guidelines say that in view of the current seriousness of the epidemic, postponing travel plans and staying at home during the Thanksgiving holiday this year is the best way to protect yourself and others.

　　The EU leaders held a video conference on the evening of the 19th to discuss the fight against the new crown epidemic. The main topics are to strengthen coordination in rapid testing, vaccination, and lifting of strict control measures.

　　The spokesperson of the Cyprus government, Kyriacos Kushos, issued a statement on the 19th, saying that the Minister of Agriculture of Cyprus, Costas Cadiz, tested positive for the new crown virus and is currently in self-isolation.

　　Kluge, director of the World Health Organization’s European Regional Office, said in an online press conference on the 19th that the number of new confirmed cases of new crowns in Europe this week has dropped from the previous week, but the epidemic situation is still severe.

　　Mexico has accumulated more than 100,000 deaths from the new crown.

The new crown epidemic data released by the Mexican Ministry of Health on the 19th showed that the country had 576 new deaths compared with the previous day, a total of 100,104; and 4,472 new confirmed cases, a total of 1,019,543.

　　India became the second country after the United States on the 20th to have a cumulative number of new crown cases exceeding 9 million.

At present, the domestic epidemic situation in India is diverging, and some areas with severe epidemics have introduced new prevention and control measures.

　　The World Health Organization issued a statement on the 20th that no matter how severe the condition of hospitalized patients with the new crown is, the antiviral drug remdesivir is not recommended for treatment, because there is currently no evidence that the drug can improve the survival rate of patients or reduce the patient’s ventilator Demand and so on.

　　The Ministry of Health of Mongolia said on the 20th that as of 17:00 of the same day, the country had a total of 557 confirmed cases of new crown, of which 130 were confirmed locally, and 357 were cured and discharged.

　　According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station, from 0:00 to 20:30 on the 20th local time, there were 2,418 new confirmed cases of new crown in Japan, which has reached a new high for 3 consecutive days, with a total of 128,348; 10 new deaths, with a total of 1965.

These data do not include cases of the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship.

　　Romanian official data released on the 20th showed that there were 9,272 new confirmed cases of new crown in the country in the past 24 hours, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 400,000, reaching 403,123.